On 09:27 Wed 22 Jul , Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > We got an embedded gentoo system where we need to manage many conf files > under /etc that we have > modified and should be under our control when an SW upgrade is performed.
Hi, > > Cloning every ebuild where we have modified its conf file(s) under /etc feels > awkward so > I am looking for some other way to do this automatically during SW upgrade > and I figured > this can not be an unique problem for us, so I wonder how other people have > solved this problem? > Our customers will not use emerge directly and we will provide binary pkgs. > > Any ideas welcome :) > you can subscribe to gentoo-embedded mailing list and ask there, as your product is embedded. Also, man make.conf and search for CONFIG_PROTECT. If I understood you correctly, it may be what you need. Panagiotis -- Panagiotis Christopoulos ( pchrist ) ( Gentoo Lisp Project )